The House of Marco Ricci in the Bellunese
1726
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Dimensions
14 9/16 x 19 1/2 in. (37 x 49.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.415
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Art Historical Context
Marco Ricci's *The House of Marco Ricci the Bellunese*1726) offers an intimate glimpse into the artist's own world. Born in Belluno in 1676, Ricci, a prominent Venetian painter and nephew of the Baroque master Sebastiano Ricci, specialized in luminous landscapes, capricci, and theatrical vedute. This drawing depicts his family house nestled in the rugged Bellunese countryside of northeastern Italy, blending personal nostalgia with the region's dramatic terrain. Rendered in pen and brown ink with wash—a favored 18th-century technique for quick, evocative sketches—it captures houses, animals, an...
About the Artist
Marco Ricci · 1676–1730
Marco Ricci (1676–1730) was born on June 6 in Belluno, in the Republic of Venice, into a family steeped in artistic tradition as the nephew of the renowned Baroque painter Sebastiano Ricci. He received his first instruction in art from his uncle, likely during a period in Milan from 1694 to 1696, before accompanying Sebastiano to Venice in 1696, from which he soon fled amid personal troubles. Ricc...